Question

Choose the correct passive form of the present tense from the options given below:
Newspaper ___________ by my father daily.
a. is read
b. is reading
c. are read
d. is being read

Answer 1

Hint: The passive form of a sentence gives more emphasis to the verb. This must go in accordance with the tense form of the sentence.

Complete answer:
The passive voice construction lays emphasis on the action mentioned in a sentence, rather on the person or thing that does the action.
A passive voice sentence will have the appropriate form of the verb 'to be' + past participle.
> That being the case, the given sentence will be written as ‘newspaper is read by my father daily.’ With the use of ‘daily’ in the sentence, we understand that a present action is mentioned in it and so we use the simple present form of 'to be.' Also, 'is read' is the correct form, formed by the simple present verb 'is' and the past participle verb 'read'. Hence option a is correct.
- Option b is wrong as ‘is reading’ is the present participle and we need here the past participle form.
- Similarly, in option c, the given plural verb 'are read' is incorrect. The subject 'newspaper' being singular, we cannot take the plural verb.
- Option d is wrong as it shows the present continuous tense.

Note: Active voice sentences are more preferred in writing. Such sentences have the subject performing an action mentioned by the verb.